Software Engineer & Researcher · Istanbul, Turkey
Software engineer and researcher with 3+ years across backend systems, applied AI, and telecom software. I own systems end to end, from research and architecture to production deployment, in TypeScript and Python: fintech-grade backends, 5G networks, and ML pipelines. M.Sc. Computer Engineering in progress at Istanbul Technical University.
Right now
I started with full-stack products and a six-person team at Wocopa, moved into test automation for defense systems at HAVELSAN, then joined Ericsson to build a 5G digital twin and the ML pipelines around it, and later to research 5G control-plane security. Most recently I built a Stripe payment-recovery engine from research to production at PlusMinusOne and worked on the backend of DynamicFlow.
What ties it together: I like problems that need both a working system and a real understanding of the domain. I have shipped mobile apps, published hardware-plus-Unity research, and written a Verilog CPU for fun.
I work AI-assisted by default. Claude Code and similar tools are part of how I prototype research ideas and ship production code, and I know where they help and where they do not.
Fintech-grade backends, REST APIs, dashboards, and mobile apps that people actually use. Designed for the workflow first, then tested, containerized, and deployed to production.
TypeScript · NestJS · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Stripe · Kubernetes
5G digital twins on Open Air Interface, ML anomaly detection on telemetry, RRC attack-surface analysis, and threat modeling for autonomous network management.
5G NR · OAI · Python · threat modeling · Linux
Building LLM-enabled prototypes and applications: an experimental sentiment workflow, a voice and document-processing case study, and Claude Code in research and production work.
LLM APIs · Python · React · Claude Code · TensorFlow · scikit-learn
Jul 2026 – Sep 2026
Istanbul, Turkey · Hybrid
Sep 2025 – Jul 2026
Istanbul, Turkey · Hybrid
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025
Istanbul, Turkey · Hybrid
Dec 2023 – Aug 2024
Istanbul, Turkey · On-site
Oct 2021 – Dec 2022
Remote
Live demo in the browser · MIT
React app that simulates Istanbul’s Marmaray line in real time: all 43 stations on an interactive Mapbox map, animated train positions computed from official timetables, per-station arrival boards and multiple service patterns — built for commuters on a phone.
Experimental workflow · no benchmarked accuracy claim
Experimental Python collection and analysis workflow with a pretrained sentiment model, optional LLM review for low-confidence results, and a React dashboard. It is a prototype, not a benchmarked general sentiment service.
Continuous-calibration DT beats reactive control
Simulation-first research artifact (ITU BLG 632E) that models gNB random access as an MMPP/M/c/K queue in SimPy, then compares no mitigation, reactive ACB, and a predictive ACB controller calibrated by mirroring error — evaluated across seeds with confidence intervals, delay CDFs and sensitivity sweeps.
iOS + Android · offline-first storage
Cross-platform iOS and Android app for tracking income, expenses, subscriptions and credit-card debt, with reminders, multi-currency support, a multi-language UI and dark mode.
27-person pilot · SUS 57.87 → 69.25
Arduino glove sensors map hand movement to Unity rehabilitation mini-games. The IEEE ASYU 2024 paper reports a pilot with 27 healthy participants; System Usability Scale (SUS) scores rose from 57.87 to 69.25 after usability refinements.
A match-and-blast physics puzzle game in Unity: grid matching, cascading clears, particle feedback and level progression — built to study game feel and juice.
Course-schedule planner for ITU students: browse offerings, build a semester plan, detect clashes and export the weekly timetable.
Full-stack voice-AI case study with a Next.js operations dashboard, FastAPI backend, call analytics, provider integration, and document ingestion backed by PostgreSQL and pgvector.
Order microservice with idempotent state transitions, persistence and a tested service layer.
A Swift utility exploring audio/state desynchronisation behaviour across Discord clients.
Windows shell integration adding “Edit with Cursor” and “Open Folder as Cursor Project” to the right-click menu.
Low-poly 3D puzzle game in Unity with interconnected mini-games and environmental puzzles.
Role-based academic exam scheduling for admins, deans, department heads and assistants.
LAN peer discovery over UDP with encrypted transfers, shared/excluded folders and a Swing GUI.
Supervisor/worker pipeline built on FIFOs, pipes and shared memory.
A Verilog CPU and assembly program that finds the maximum of ten integers, verified by testbench.
A preprocessor expanding shorthand array declarations and arithmetic into standard C.
Two-player board game against a heuristic minimax opponent.
Next-day rainfall prediction on the Australian weather dataset with XGBoost and Optuna tuning.
NLP study correlating news-headline sentiment with Bitcoin price movements.
Scheduling optimizer comparing simulated annealing against a genetic algorithm.
Constraint-propagation solver for the 4×4 skyscraper logic puzzle.
Small CLI utility for Turkish-language text processing.
Scrapes and normalises recipe data from the web into a structured dataset.
Extracts and summarises long PDF documents into short digests.
Peer-to-peer video calling experiment for mobile browsers.
Duty rota management system for hospital staff scheduling.
Turns photographs into stylised pixel-art portraits.
IEEE ASYU 2024, 2024
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Built a stock-market prediction model combining BERT sentiment analysis of economic news with LSTM forecasting on BIST100 data, and an LSTM-based Bitcoin trading bot, under Prof. Dr. Emin Erkan Korkmaz.
Jan 2023 – Feb 2023
Modeled software solution scenarios for defense, healthcare, and automotive case studies using model-driven engineering, under Prof. Dr. Mert Özkaya.
Sep 2025 – Jun 2027 (expected)
Focus on network security and privacy.
Sep 2020 – Jun 2024
GPA 3.66/4.00 · 100% scholarship · graduated 3rd in department.
Feb 2023 – Jun 2023
07 — Contact
Open to backend, applied-AI and network-security roles and research collaborations — anywhere.